When you start seeking rent on the livelihood of artists, I don’t think you get to claim you work at the intersection of Technology and Liberal Arts anymore.

https://news.patreon.com/articles/understanding-apple-requirements-for-patreon

Apple’s requirements to hit creators and fans on Patreon

Apple requires that Patreon switch to their iOS in-app purchase system, or risk being removed from the App Store. Here’s what’s creators need to know.

Apple’s requirements to hit creators and fans on Patreon

@chockenberry ok, can we just implement (micro)transactions in activitypub?

i'm still not sure we can make federated social media work but this would be perfect sales platform... if every artist/seller/driver/hotel could run their own federated site and be searchable and bookable by anyone using the same platform/protocol (same as mastodon profiles and posts but shops and products) we wouldn't need patreon/amazon/uber/airbnb...

edit: i get this is a different problem but it made me think